Cancel culture
Some ancient wisdom for our censorious times.
“One cannot really understand the truth if one does not understand the arguments that can be urged against it.”
A Yale political scientist joins us to talk about esoteric writing and how to understand its relation to politics.
The benefits of not cancelling Jesse Jackson.
The Case of Alice Walker Shows That Anti-Semitism Is One Prejudice That Doesn’t Lead to Cancellation
The New Yorker’s fawning avoids the denunciations and hand-wringing that we’ve come to expect when other bigots are profiled.
The recent decision to stop selling the books of a disgraced Orthodox children’s author reflects a pre-liberal sensibility worth recovering.
Princeton University halted an art installation featuring, among other pieces, the work of two Jewish soldiers who had served in the Confederate army.
Ex-friends.
The fear of being forever canceled and shamed is more apparent than the fear of betraying oneself.
The real threats to American Jewry lie elsewhere.
If we’re going to shame people, we should also find a way to forgive them.
Absent God, we live in a world where the shameless flourish.
An unabashedly Jewish comedian who won over audiences of all faiths.
It’s a cop-out to explain away a novel’s improprieties on the grounds that they are of another age.